Recent organizational and legal changes of Australia's faculty union may affect its operations and power. Some concern has been expressed at its centralization, some at growth in branch power versus institutional-level power. Short-term change is unlikely because the same individuals will be making decisions for some time. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the need for U.S. resettlement workers to (1) consider how political dynamics--such as own-group political coercion, exploitation, or intimidation and political differences between the sending and host countries--affect those they are assisting and (2) incorporate techniques responsive to these factors. (CMG)

The statistics, legal situation, and European agency cooperation in relation to student mobility in Europe involve several political questions in relation to a unified system of higher education. (KM)

Discusses the changing role of social agencies and the need for a reexamination of the counseling services offered in the adoption process. (SP)

Considers existing mechanisms for international action on environmental improvement and accomplishments of European organizations to date. Suggests some of the problems and difficulties relative to establishing international environmental controls. (BL)

Interagency cooperation at all levels involves material and personnel. Not only must the material be sufficient, but the personnel must be enthusiastic and cooperative. (MF)

The article originally appeared in The Public Interest, n18, Win 1970. (Author)

A survey of personnel from eight selected agencies or groups who were or who might be responsible for providing inservice education for vocational agriculture instructors in Iowa indicated that the vocational agriculture instructors and the university research and teaching staff should be equally responsible for determining the goals and…

Clarifies the concept of discretion, demonstrates how far the courts have been willing to tolerate it, and charts some new paths that appear to be opening before those who advocate wide judicial review. Available from the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario, Canada, M3J 2R5; $8.00/issue. (Author/IRT)

Examines the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the conflict between the criteria of social choice that decision makers wish to employ to end the moral and legal constraints that nondiscrimination laws seek to impose on such criteria. Available from the Yale Jaw Journal, 401A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06820. (Author/IRT)

Considers quality control in teacher education in terms of inhibitors and contributors to quality control in special education. Among the inhibitors are teacher surplus, change in educational demands, and the special education image; and contributors are high quality as a priority, talent of faculty members, positive agency and professional…

Describes the role social service agencies can play in the early detection of potential handicaps in preschool children. (BD)